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Prophetic Extracts 24.2

Clement of Alexandria · Prophetic Extracts · ca. 200 · Alexandria · Read in context

Summary: We render to Caesar the earthy image we bore, and to God what is God's; each passion is like a stamp on us.

Greek text · Stählin 3:143

τούτῳ οὖν τὰ χοϊκὰ ἀποδοτέον, ἃ »πεφορέκαμεν ἐν τῇ εἰκόνι τοῦ χοϊκοῦ«, καὶ »τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τῷ θεῷ«· ἕκαστον γὰρ τῶν παθῶν ὥσπερ γράμμα καὶ χάραγμα ἡμῖν καὶ σημεῖον.

English · Claude translation

To him, then, must be rendered the earthy things, which “we have borne in the image of the earthy,” and “the things of God to God”; for each of the passions is like a letter, stamp, and sign on us.

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Source
Stählin 3:143 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 3, Stromata Buch VII und VIII, Excerpta ex Theodoto, Eclogae propheticae, Quis dives salvetur, Fragmente, GCS 17 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 3 (GCS 17, 1909), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1909); made independently of existing English translations.
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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 24.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/24/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 24.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/24/2/).

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